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A couple from St Martin in Cornwall suffered every parent's worst nightmare last month when their newborn baby Ezrah became very poorly without warning.
A couple who have been "through hell" after losing their baby after just 19 days are calling for more awareness of a common infection that…
He's still in nappies overnight. he needs 24/7 supervision. in other words, the level of harm that has happened to adam is utterly life changing for me. it was life changing for my husband before his death in 2020, and it is unequivocally life changing for my son. and i want to take you back to something you mentioned about your waters breaking and the point at which that happened, because that happened some 29 hours before you went into labour. and that is a warning sign that something might be wrong, that there is a risk of group b strep and that wasn't picked up on either, was it? that's co...
If they'd have listened to me from the beginning, you know, jack probably would have been here today. in what way? i repeatedly asked for a caesarean and i was knocked back every chance. jack was born in a poor condition and died just 11 hours old. they literally said, "we don't know why he's died". and i asked, "is that it? you don't know why he's died?" and then they said, "well, we don't know what else to tell you." and i was like, "well, i want a postmortem, because a baby just doesn'tjust die." the postmortem found jack had died of group b strep, but still the trust didn't learn. baby pip...
Of women and babies, when it's published later this morning. the inquiry will conclude that 201 babies might have survived, if better maternity support had been provided by the shrewsbury and telford hospital trust. our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan, has been following the investigation. adam is nearly 11 years old. he is hearing impaired. he's visually impaired, he's autistic. he's asthmatic. he has learning difficulties and developmental delays. in the hours after his birth, adam cheshire was refusing to feed. he had developed an infection, group b strep, that staff at the r...